Remove the first character of a string

Question

I would like to remove the first character of a string.

For example, my string starts with a : and I want to remove that only. There are several occurre

Answer 1

python 2.x

s = ":dfa:sif:e"
print s[1:]

python 3.x

s = ":dfa:sif:e"
print(s[1:])

both prints

dfa:sif:e